Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a941daa588b3e4cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b6f49253ba5d67b0f82db00f8aad57c4 SHA-1: ec22c0513b0b876ea300a14cdbe8735ba5495afb SHA-256: a941daa588b3e4cc48c6682f3450f0775e53d6a39daa2f112a51a216b2d5ea8c
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a chemistry textbook answer key. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the malicious nature of the primary URL. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm used for SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of a malicious redirector and the link farm strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=chemistry+raymond+chang+10th+edition+answers
    • http://files.pennjournalconlaw.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682694/bawibixijuzawo.pdf
    • http://wuzigodar.aurora-v-cinematography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871787/faa4244e8dbf.pdf
    • http://files.upstreamlearning.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381553/sivif.pdf
    • http://files.sotomayorhomesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410939/fuvawo.pdf
    • http://derere.my-mediamatters.tech/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/sukezulevekekot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8424/2325/files/20040434432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6408/2073/files/labigowozakoruxuzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0407/5933/files/mulitovir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1694/8633/files/baronamirijipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3875/files/figib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3901/4562/files/bekagepolotibevidam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9220/5978/files/pavomexapomisejez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1945/2072/files/suvazatoruzodokodoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7377/2447/files/how_to_read_the_akashic_records_linda_howe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1641/3607/files/67803022954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0593/3730/files/26031894171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/dobusowijusezazojasala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0363/4079/files/95667015165.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f17.bin
44a805e8bfddfd4455c7e3580b9ac3ab5835c08009acefb55e36fba8d9d44214
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F17 1764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077b3.bin
0e905dfd0be8d82e329c2db358acaa2f7d1660601447f2618f1faae932832843
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77B3 5612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008ab9.bin
70db78dd965a4c17f42f80dd650553472899346e452b75c89a0d8f9b15a2fa4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AB9 11308 bytes